My awareness

You never had to disguise yourself.

I was aware of the way your eyes felt as they stalked me.

love holds no comparison to the way it feels to be preyed upon.  

My kind the perused, we were the sought after.

How rare a breed, capable of unconditional love,

an endless flow of which you may feed your dying soul.

Glutinous intent left you greedily ravaging me.

All the while the mightiest of hunters became weak.

Guilt a silent predator forced you to your knees.

Selfishness the undoing.

you never even stopped to notice all the things that guarded me. While still drawing joy from my bones ,

Asphyxiation became the last thing to remind you

of the emptiness you settled for.

blindly surviving and forgetting how to live.

The chains you thought had kept me here were never even real.